BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20160101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170617T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170617T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170615T001803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T001803Z UID:27274-1497726000-1497733200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poetry Real Life DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin\nReaders: A’aron Heard\nDavid Lau\nTanea Lunsford\nAndrea Murphy\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nAsh Phillips\nMathew Siegel\nSB Stokes\nRene Vaz URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-real-life/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170617T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170617T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170524T122520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T122520Z UID:27061-1497708000-1497711600@litseen.com SUMMARY:MK Chavez: Guest Poet @Claremont DESCRIPTION:MK Chavez reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. Pick up a free chapbook of MK Chavez poems at any BPL branch! URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-guest-poet-claremont/ LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170617T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170617T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170606T015125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T015838Z UID:27220-1497697200-1497722400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest 2017 DESCRIPTION:đŸ‘œ :: Q U E E R S : I N : S P A C E :: đŸ‘œ \nJoin us on Saturday\, June 17th\, as we celebrate independent publishing and the Bay Area’s diverse queer histories. Admission is FREE\, the event is FAMILY FRIENDLY\, and is also ACCESSIBLE. The fest runs from 11 AM – 6 PM! \n  \n🌞 FEATURING 🌞\n– ZINE LIBRARY\n– MAKE YOUR OWN ZINE WORKSHOP\n– ZINE READINGS\n– 40 TABLERS \n  \n🌠 TABLERS 🌠\nAlexis Jimenez\nAnand Vedawala\nBreena Nuñez\nCabronas Healing\nCameron Simmons\nCenter for Sex and Culture\nChulita Vinyl Club\nChris Mancinas\nDating Between the Lines\nDarcy Crash Distro\nThe Degenderettes\nDiscantbelife Press\nElliott Sky Case\nEnola Dismay\nFoglifter\nGlamboyant Zine\nThe Grand Newsstand\nIvy Atoms\nLindsay Rodriguez\nLisa Sy\nMaia Kobabe\nMarie Njoku-Obi\nMixed Race Queer and Feminist Zine\nMixed Rice Zines\nNia King\nNiko Nada\nPatrick Woolf\nQueer Fat Crafts for Ghosts and Cuties\nRadical Queereans\nRoxana Dhada\nSe’mana Thompson\nSilver Sprocket Bicycle Club\nSarah Grace Gladstone\nSonia Nickles\nSouth Bay DIY Zine Collective\nTYFN Zine\, Megalodude & Queen Sen Sen\nVanessa Hernandez\nViolet Zitola\nXicanx Crybaby\nZerena Diaz \n  \n🚀 TRANSPORTATION 🚀\nThe East Bay Community Space is located at 507 55th St in Oakland\, right in the middle of Ashby\, MacArthur\, and Rockridge BART stations! There is limited street parking! No bikes allowed inside the Space! For more transit information\, please visit http://511.org/ \n  \n🌛 ACCESSIBILITY 🌜\nEBCS is fully ADA compliant. There is a lift to both levels of the mezzanine areas. Each of the six gender-neutral bathroom stalls is wheelchair accessible. Only service animals are allowed in the Space. THIS WILL BE A SCENT-FREE EVENT! For more information on how to be scent-free\, visit:http://thinkagaintraining.com/about/fragrance-free/#forparticipants \n  \n☄ SAFETY ☄\nBAQZF is a safe space and we won’t tolerate ANY BULLSHIT. This means no discrimination based on gender identity or presentation\, race\, class\, body\, ability\, religion\, or sexuality. No racism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism of any kind will be tolerated. RESPECT the space\, the artists\, their property\, and their work. If at any time you feel unsafe during the event\, grab one of our volunteers\, and we’ll handle the situation. There will be no alcohol allowed on the premises. \n  \n✹ BAQZF MISSION STATEMENT ✹\nThe goal of the Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF) is to showcase and promote the DIY publishing scene of the Bay\, while highlighting its diverse queer histories. We aim to illustrate these histories by bringing marginalized voices to the forefront of the fest – specifically those of people of color\, femmes\, disabled folks\, and trans folks. Our mission is clear: we are queer and love zines. This fest is for and by queer people. \n  \n🖖 #arajoforever URL:https://litseen.com/event/baqzf/ LOCATION:East Bay Community Space\, 507 55th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170616T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170616T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T230322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T230322Z UID:27176-1497639600-1497646800@litseen.com SUMMARY:At The Inkwell DESCRIPTION:The At The Inkwell series returns with its usual variety of tender mayhem. URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-inkwell/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170616T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170616T130000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170513T010218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T010218Z UID:26834-1497616200-1497618000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Sherilyn Connelly DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Sherilyn Connelly in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \nSherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer and librarian\, and a film critic for the Village Voice and SF Weekly. Her first nonfiction book\, Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony\, 1981-2016\, was recently published by McFarland & Company. URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-sherilyn-connelly/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170615T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170615T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170519T111257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020624Z UID:26984-1497556800-1497564000@litseen.com SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love
\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early
 \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on
 Remember: EVERYTHING GOES
 so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are. URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-6/ LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170615T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170615T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170425T011755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011755Z UID:26319-1497555000-1497562200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Thomas Centonella DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centonella presents his new poetry collection\, Almost Human\, winner of the Dorset Prize\, selected by Edward Hirsch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs in a profound love affair\, Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first person protagonists in Almost Human are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella has published three previous books of poetry: American Book Award-winner Terra Firma\, Lights & Mysteries\, and Views from Along the Middle Way. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has taught literature and creative writing at San Francisco State\, UC extension\, the College of Marin\, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program as well as for the Institute on Aging and WritersCorps. He lives in San Francisco. URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-centonella/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170615T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170615T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T230042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T230042Z UID:27174-1497553200-1497560400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Borderlands Lectura Reading Series DESCRIPTION:The bi-monthly Borderlands Lectura reading series returns with writers exploring the issues of borders and boundaries. Featured readers: Scott Duncan\, Noam Zelaya\, Sara Campos\, Norma Liliana Valdez and John Jota Leaños. URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-lectura-reading-series/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170504T234947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234947Z UID:26723-1497468600-1497475800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard w/ Keith Ekiss\, Clara Hsu\, + David Wong DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts local poet Christopher Bernard for his new book Chien Lunatique. With Christopher will be poets Keith Ekiss and Clara Hsu\, who will be joined by David Wong on the guqin. Join us for a night of poetry and music! \nLove\, Modernity\, and the Internet. Just who\, or what\, is Le Chien Lunatique? The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems—profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing—distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of post-modernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new: the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nChristopher Bernard is author of the novels A Spy in the Ruins andVoyage to a Forgotten Planet\, the short-story collections Dangerous Stories for Boys and In the American Night\, and The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism. His poetry can be found online at The Bog of St. Philinte. He lives in San Francisco. \nKeith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook(New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio was published in 2016 by The Bitter Oleander Press. \nClara Hsu practices the art of multidimensional being: mother\, piano teacher\, director of Clarion Music Performing Arts Center in San Francisco\, traveler\, translator\, and poet. Henry W Leung wrote in Lantern Review on her work: “Hsu
remains faithful to the sense in Chinese while also refreshing our English idiom.” But Clara likes to experiment and transform her translations into unique poetic expressions\, stunning in sound and form. She is currently finishing her translations of Lao-Tze’s Tao-te Ching\, taking the ancient texts for a wild ride in the twenty-first century. \nHailing from a long line of Chinese scholars\, David Wong has studied guqin (seven string zither)\, guzheng (Chinese table harp)\, pipa (Chinese lute)\, traditional Chinese painting\, and tea culture under masters in the United States and China. As a member of the San Francisco Gu-zheng Music Society’s youth ensemble\, with the support of guzheng virtuoso Liu Weishan\, Wong’s passion for teaching and introducing traditional Chinese culture lead to the establishment of Tranquil Resonance Studio\, which carries on the mission of passing along these ancient traditions to the greater community through lessons\, performances\, workshops and lectures throughout the bay area. In 2004 he received Honor awards and Outstanding Performance awards at the First International Guqin Competition held in Beijing. URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-w-keith-ekiss-clara-hsu-david-wong/ LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170201T045300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020535Z UID:25038-1497468600-1497474000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Bad Decisions DESCRIPTION:Nothing makes for a better story than a bad decision. Short of an Act of God\, that’s how the best (as in worst) things tend to come about\, really. So this month\, join us at Fireside as we celebrate six storytellers’ very bad decisions\, with the entertaining— for us\, anyway — tales that they led to. \nReaders:\nEmily Epstein-White\nDoug Cordell\nJake Arky\nMark Steinberg URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-bad-decisions/ LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170320T105304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T105304Z UID:25536-1497466800-1497474000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov + Randall Mann DESCRIPTION:reading from new poetry \nTogether and by Ourselves \nby Alex Dimitrov  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \n& \nProprietary: Poems \nby Randall Mann \nfrom Persea Press \nAbout Together and by Ourselves: \nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism—whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017)\, Begging for It (Four Way Books\, 2013)\, and the online chapbook American Boys (Floating Wolf Quarterly\, 2012). He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry\, The Yale Review\, Kenyon Review\, Slate\, Tin House\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. He has taught creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, Marymount Manhattan College\, Bennington College\, and lives in New York City. \nvisit: http://alexdimitrov.tumblr.com/ \nAbout Proprietary: Poems: \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-randall-mann/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170514T020055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T001747Z UID:26870-1497380400-1497387600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Well-RED: Arlene Biala DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6:30pm and performance begins at 7:00pm.\nAffordable wine\, beer and soda. \nAdmission: $2 Suggested Donation; No one turned away. \nWe have the great pleasure of presenting the release of spring mother tongue\, edited by Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala. Copies of the anthology will be available. This will be a full night of readings by authors including:\nAmerica Cihuapilli Irineo\nASHA\nArlene Biala\nJade Bradbury\nDarrell Dela Cruz\nLorenz Dumuk\nParthenia Hicks\nLarry Taylor Hollist\nJoel Katz\nLita Kurth\nPushpa McFarlane\nQuynh-Mai Nguyen\nNils Peterson\nAnthony Santa Ana\nAnn Sherman\nDonna Steelman\nJarvis Subia \nFROM spring mother tongue: \nDear Reader\, \nIn these pages you will find us. The stories behind our names\, the origins\, hopes\, expectations\, and honor songs. We call Santa Clara County “home” even if we consider ourselves far away from our true homeland or drifting between homelands. You will find us in varying ages\, spaces\, beliefs\, ethnicities\, languages\, and colors of music. You will find us in “tĂș eres mi otro yo”/”you are my other me” and we can recognize each other. \nYou may recognize yourself in us. You may recall your own name(s) and stories around it/them and be moved to use your own poetic voice. I hope that you do. \nIn my time as the Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\, I’ve been honored to share space with fierce\, beautiful poets of our community. In this collection are twenty-three of our local poets who have come to talk story with you. I thank them for creating space to help us be better. I thank you for sharing the space with us. \nIn Community Spirit and Poetry\, \nArlene Angeles Biala\nSanta Clara County Poet Laureate URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-arlene-biala/ LOCATION:Works/San JosĂ©\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T200000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170531T002152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T002152Z UID:27124-1497380400-1497384000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Queer Mysteries at Perfectly Queer DESCRIPTION:“Queer Mysteries” stars three Lambda Literary Award luminaries–Michael Nava\, who has won six times and is nominated again this year for Lay Your Sleeping Head—Jon Wilson\, a 2016 Finalist for Cheap as Beasts–and Katie Gilmartin\, the 2015 Winner for Blackmail\, My Love. PLEASE NOTE: We are meeting for mysteries on TUESDAY\, June 13 this month at Perfectly Queer\, 7pm\, Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Mysterious door prizes for the quick and easy\, free admission\, and free refreshments. Book signing follows the readings. URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mysteries-at-perfectly-queer/ LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T133000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170414T005844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011353Z UID:25980-1497357000-1497360600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music. URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival/ LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170522T132015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020411Z UID:27007-1497295800-1497301200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Philip Kobylarz + Renee Rettig DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Philip Kobylarz for his new book A Miscellany of Diverse Things. He’ll be in conversation with Renee Rettig. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. in San Francisco. It is free and open to the public. Join us! \nThe essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects\, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects\, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners. Kobylarz’s poetry may initially elevate the mundane\, but its deepest design is to ask what the human possession divulges about the human being. The quotidian isn’t only ecstatic; the quotidian is a book of revelations. \nWith nods to Flaubert’s Le Dictionnaire des IdEes Recues and Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary\, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities. Encyclopedic in its compilation (more than 400 entries in this dictionary volume)\, miscellany avoids the static inventory list of a storehouse to embody the world as theatre. There are no museum exhibits\, with objects isolated and preserved in glass cases. Instead\, Kobylarz places spotlights on the minute\, under-appreciated\, and even unloved. He regards common objects as pearls within the world of an oyster\, but never forgets their genesis of grit and irritant. URL:https://litseen.com/event/philip-kobylarz-and-renee-rettig/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170425T013641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T013641Z UID:26279-1497294000-1497301200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Mark Hull DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nMasquerade: Treason\, the Holocaust\, and an Irish Impostor \nco-authored by Mark Hull and Vera Moynes \nfrom University of Oklahoma Press \nPhyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. RĂłisĂ­n NĂ­ MhĂ©ara. Like her name\, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child\, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family\, to traitor during World War II\, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade\, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. \nBy altering her identity to suit the situation\, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service\, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service\, British intelligence\, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and\, with him\, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland\, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions\, and participated in the failed\, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances\, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. \nImmediately after the war\, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor)\, but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona\, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography\, published in Gaelic\, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. \nIn documenting James’s life of deception\, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual\, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear. \nMark M. Hull\, Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, an attorney\, and the author of Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland\, 1939–1945. URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-hull/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170519T100317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T100317Z UID:26957-1497207600-1497214800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon Reading DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Julian Talamantez Brolaski with readers Sirama Bajo\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Evan Kennedy\, Erica Lewis\, Laura Moriarty\, Cedar Sigo\, Max Wolf Valerio\, and Ronaldo Wilson. URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-reading/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T203000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T221128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T015742Z UID:27152-1497205800-1497213000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Science Fiction in SF DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, June 11\, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney\, moderated by Bay Area author and editor Terry Bisson.\n​\nEach author will read from a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience\, moderated by Terry B​isson. \nBorderlands Books will be on hand selling books\, and our event will be podcasted by SOMA FM. \nSteven R. Boyett‘s novels include the fantasy classic Ariel\, The Architect of Sleep\, Elegy Beach\, and Mortality Bridge. He has been a professional martial arts instructor\, paper marbler\, advertising copywriter\, proofreader\, writing teacher\, website designer & editor\, chapbook publisher\, and DJ who has played in major cities and Burning Man. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. His latest book\, Fata Morgana\, was written with Ken Mitchroney. \nKen Mitchroney’s film and television credits include director\, head of story\, director of photography\, and storyboard artist on Storks\, The Lego Movie\, The Ant Bully\, Toy Story 2\, Monsters Inc.\, The Annoying Orange Show\, Mighty Magiswords\, and more. His comic illustration includes Ren & Stimpy\, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\, Myth Conceptions\, and creating the influential Space Ark. He is an official artist for the Ed “Big Daddy” Roth estate\, and official illustrator for the Oakland Athletics and at one time the Baltimore Orioles. Mitchroney has been a professional race-car driver and pinstriper\, and restores and runs vintage locomotives. He is currently involved with the restoration of the Ward Kimball collection at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris\, California. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. URL:https://litseen.com/event/science-fiction-in-sf/ LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T200000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T225843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T225843Z UID:27172-1497204000-1497211200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Raina Leon\, and James Cagney DESCRIPTION:Poetry! A reading from Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Raina Leon\, and James Cagney. URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-raina-leon-and-james-cagney/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170515T235150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235150Z UID:26904-1497196800-1497204000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Kim Shuck’s monthly poetry series URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170527T014634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T014634Z UID:27093-1497123000-1497132000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Secret Speakeasy DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for a SPECIAL evening of sexy spoken word and song in an intimate SECRET SPEAKEASY\, featuring the photography of Lucille Lares-Kiwan (@__gatekeeper). The show will be hosted by Jennifer Lewiswith piano accompaniment by Sarah Dineen and live musical scoring byDavid Williams. \nFeatured writers: Lisa Alden\, Tomas Moniz\, Kimberly Reyes\, Kelsey Kundera Whitman and more (TBA). \nComedy by: Luna Malbroux \nSpecial musical guests: Rykarda Parasol \nDoors open at 7:30pm\, show starts at 8pm. DJ Duserock (aka Ryan Stubbs) will play music after the show so plan on staying for a dance party. \nADVANCE TICKETS ARE SUGGESTED. Seating is limited!\n$15 in advance\, $20 at the door. Once you buy tickets via Eventbrite\, you will get the address. If you plan on buying tickets at the door\, please email: jennifer@redlightlit.com. \n***NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. (Please email jennifer@redlightlit.com) URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-secret-speakeasy/ LOCATION:Secret South of Market Location CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170417T112328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010506Z UID:26110-1497123000-1497130200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 10\, 2017: \nGlen David Gold (Sunnyside\, Carter Beats The Devil)\nMark Oshiro (Mark Does Stuff) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-5/ LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T231747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T030850Z UID:27184-1497121200-1497128400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Melodie Winawer: The Scribe of Siena DESCRIPTION:Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy\, debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy\, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first century woman will discover a plot to destroy Siena. \nAccomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away\, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate\, even as she wrestles with grief. But as she delves deeper into her brother’s affairs\, she discovers intrigue she never imagined—a 700-year-old conspiracy to decimate the city. \nAfter uncovering the journal and paintings of Gabriele Accorsi\, the fourteenth-century artist at the heart of the plot\, Beatrice finds a startling image of her own face and is suddenly transported to the year 1347. She awakens in a Siena unfamiliar to her\, one that will soon be hit by the Plague. \nYet when Beatrice meets Accorsi\, something unexpected happens: she falls in love—not only with Gabriele\, but also with the beauty and cadence of medieval life. As the Plague and the ruthless hands behind its trajectory threaten not only her survival but also Siena’s very existence\, Beatrice must decide in which century she belongs. \nThe Scribe of Siena is the captivating story of a brilliant woman’s passionate affair with a time and a place that captures her in an impossibly romantic and dangerous trap—testing the strength of fate and the bonds of love. URL:https://litseen.com/event/melodie-winawer-the-scribe-of-siena/ LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T200000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170504T232743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T232743Z UID:26706-1497117600-1497124800@litseen.com SUMMARY:New releases from Pelekinesis Press DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of sharing from three Pelekinesis authors reading from their latest books! \nPETER CHERCHES: Autobiography Without Words \nDON SKILES: Rain After Midnight \nPETER WORTSMAN: Footprints in Wet Cement \nCalled “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly\, Peter Cherches is a writer\, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing\, both fiction and nonfiction\, has appeared in dozens of magazines\, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist\, “Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer\,” was released in 2016. He is the author of three previous prose collections\, most recently “Lift Your Right Arm\,” which Pelekinesis published in 2013. Cherches is a native of Brooklyn\, New York. \nDubbed “a 20th-century Brother Grimm” (Bloomsbury Review) and “a delinquent Hans Christian Andersen” (by playwright Mark O’Donnell)\, Peter Wortsman is the author of work in multiple modes\, including a previous book of short prose fiction\, “A Modern Way To Die” (1991); a travel memoir\, “Ghost Dance in Berlin\, A Rhapsody in Gray” (2013); and a novel\, “Cold Earth Wanderers” (2014). He collaborated with artist Harold Wortsman on an artists’ book\, “it-t=i” (2004) and with photographer Jean-Luc Dubin on a photo essay “New York\, NY 1978” (2016). He is also the author of two stage plays. His travel writing has been included five years in a row in The Best Travel Writing\, 2008-2012\, and again in 2016. He is also a critically acclaimed translator from German into English. \nDon Skiles is the author of “Miss America and Other Stories”\, “The James Dean Jacket Story”\, and “Football”. His work has appeared in “Quaartsiluni\,” “Snowmonkey\,” “Silenced Press\,” “Over the Transom\,” “MungBeing\,” and “Chicago Quarterly Review.” His poetry appears in three books from Viking Dog Press/Conehenge Studios (with the work of painter Claribel Cone): “18 Views of San Francisco\,” “Sono Choushi!” and “Blue Rhapsody.” Skiles lives in San Francisco. URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-releases-from-pelekinesis-press/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170515T235051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235051Z UID:26902-1497108600-1497115800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Paseo Artistico: Tender Buttons DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of bay area poetry <3 URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-tender-buttons/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T120000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170504T005344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T005344Z UID:26690-1497088800-1497096000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Adeline Nip DESCRIPTION:Book talk and signing by author Adeline Nip.\nWriters Carol Liang and Tymo Lin will also participate in signing their new books. URL:https://litseen.com/event/adeline-nip/ LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170610T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T210000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170425T010920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T010920Z UID:26335-1497081600-1497128400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bridging: A One-Day Writing Retreat DESCRIPTION:Hedgebrook and SMC MFA in Creative Writing are collaborating to present a one-day writing retreat for women\, trans women\, genderqueer women\, and non-binary people. \nKeynote speaker: \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was short listed for the Man Booker Prize\, winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award and The California Book Award for Fiction. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award and has served as president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). \nWorkshops\nFrom Artist Statement to Press Kit: A Po-Biz* Workshop\nRaina J. LeĂłn has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\,   She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with the Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale.  She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.  www.rainaleon.com \n*Poetry Business\n\nStory Development: Plot\, Character and 7 Steps to Authentic Storytelling\nAngie Powers has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College\, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel\, The Blessed. She also has a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) andwas a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She is currently in development on a feature-length comedy Lost in the Middle.  She is a teacher and cofounder at bookwritingworld.com.  Angiepowers.com \n\nFlash Nonfiction: Sharpening Your Story for the Short and Long Haul\nJill Kolongowski is the author of Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me\, forthcoming from Ulysses Press. She is also the managing editor at YesYes Books. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket magazine. Other essays are published in Profane\, Sweet: A Literary Confection\, Forklift\, Ohio\, Southern Indiana Review\, Fugue\, and elsewhere. Jill was born in Michigan\, but now lives near San Francisco\, where she teaches writing\, hikes\, and watches Chopped marathons. \n\nApplying for Fellowships and Residencies: Writing Personal Statements and Project Proposals\nRashaan Alexis Meneses has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, The International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle\, UK\, and the Jacob K. Javits Program. Her fiction and non-fiction is published in various journals and anthologies\, including Kartika Review\, Puerto Del Sol\, New Letters\, BorderSenses\, Kurungabaa\, The Coachella Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Doveglion Press\, and the anthology Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. You can find her at rashaanalexismeneses.com \n\nCost\n$115 until May 6\n$130 after May 6\nLimited partial scholarships available. Email Joanne Furio for an application.\nSpecial accommodations available. Email Joanne Furio. \nCost includes: \n\nFood (three meals\, happy hour\, and evening cake and coffee)\nVegan and gluten-free options available\nNetworking opportunities with Bay Area women writers’ groups\nAn evening keynote by Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, Sister Noon and Black Glass and Hedgebrook alumna\nYour choice of one of four afternoon workshops\n\nFunds raised from the retreat benefit both programs and the newly established Hedgebrook scholarship for a St. Mary’s MFA student. \nONLINE PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION \nIf you have questions please email Joanne Furio or Amy Wheeler. URL:https://litseen.com/event/bridging-a-one-day-writing-retreat/ LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170604T214502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T015555Z UID:27146-1497036600-1497043800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge DESCRIPTION:Lunada’s Spring 2017 Season Closer features Saint-Hills\, DJ Glo\, and 10 spots on our Open Mic. \nOpen Mic sign-up at 7:15pm: 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. each\, inviting poets\, emcees\, singer/ songwriters\, storytellers\, laureates\, and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight.\nLunada closes a phenomenal 2017 Spring season with much pride\, featuring Brazilian emerging artist\, singer producer Saint-Hills\, and Nuyorican DJ Glo – spinning tribal\, caribbean\, latinx\, and afro beats. With deep love for our pueblo\, we enter the summer on our feet\, dancing under the full moon at Galeria de la Raza. \nHosted by Sandra GarcĂ­a Rivera\n\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, mĂșsica\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at GalerĂ­a de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSaint-Hills is a 20-year-old Brazilian producer and singer\, known for his unique electro-pop sound\, which contains strong influences of Brazilian music and culture. In 2015 Saint-Hills moved from his hometown Brasilia\, Brazil to San Francisco\, USA\, where both his career and personal life took flight. In San Francisco\, Saint-Hills produced and released his first single\, the bilingual song “(Geo)graphy.” Saint-Hills is also the first transgender/gender non-conforming singer to come out of Brazil. \nDJ Glo\, a Nuyorican\, is passionate about the art of DJing and a student learning everyday. Influenced by the salsa\, bachata\, merengue\, and freestlyle music they heard growing up\, you can expect to hear (and feel) tribal\, caribbean\, latinx\, and/or afro beats while listening to their set. URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge/ LOCATION:GalerĂ­a de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170522T134329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020306Z UID:27016-1497036600-1497043800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Annie Hartnett DESCRIPTION:Annie Hartnett discusses her new novel\, Rabbit Cake\, with Ellen O’Connell Whittet. \nAbout Rabbit Cake \nFans of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett’s debut\, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother. \nTwelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color\, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3\,000 pounds\, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother\, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking\, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn’t yet know―like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother’s silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother’s death and finds comfort\, if not answers\, in the people (and animals) of Freedom\, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest\, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief\, family\, and the endurance of humor after loss \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/annie-hartnett/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T213000 DTSTAMP:20260417T092856 CREATED:20170323T002234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T002234Z UID:25566-1497034800-1497043800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Cleave + Liminal DESCRIPTION:This is a special book release/collaboration between Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers and The Liminal Center. 9 women writers\, represented in anthology Cleave/Liminal\, will read from their work. Issues of the anthology will be available for purchase with all profits going to the Liminal Center for women writing in a shared working environment in Oakland. URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleave-liminal/ LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR